Penelopeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Ancient Greek Πηνελόπη (Pēnelópē), possibly from πηνέλοψ (pēnélops, “duck”).

発音

• IPA: /pɪˈnɛləpi/

固有名詞

Penelope

1. (Greek mythology) The faithful wife of Odysseus.
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     You would be another Penelope; yet, they say, all the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca with moths.

2. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1967, Joan G. Robinson, When Marnie Was There, HarperCollins, published 2014, →ISBN, page 194:

     "She's a sort of pretend auntie - an old friend of Mummy's. Her real name's Miss Penelope Gill but we always call her Gillie."
     "Don't you ever let her hear you calling her Penelope!" said Mrs Lindsay, laughing. "She hates the name, though really I can't see why. I suppose it wasn't so fashionable when she was young."

   • 2004, Alice Munro, Runaway:Stories, Knopf, page 93:

     "What's her name?" He meant the baby's. "Penelope. We're never going to call her Penny. Penelope." - - - ""Oh. Well, it's Penelope Henderson - Porteous I guess. Or Porteous - Henderson. But maybe that's too much of a mouthful, when she's already called Penelope? We knew that we wanted Penelope. We'll have to settle it somehow."

3. A town in Texas.

使用する際の注意点

• Popular given name in the U.K. in the 1950s and the 1960s.

派生語

参照

• Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [peːˈnɛ.ɫɔ.peː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [peˈnɛː.lo.pe]

固有名詞

Pēnelopē f sg (genitive Pēnelopēs); first declension

1. Penelope, wife to Odysseus, mother to Telemachus, and daughter of Icarius and Peribaea

語形変化

First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

参照

• “Penelope”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press